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About emptywheel
Marcy Wheeler is an independent journalist writing about national security and civil liberties. She writes as emptywheel at her eponymous blog, publishes at outlets including Vice, Motherboard, the Nation, the Atlantic, Al Jazeera, and appears frequently on television and radio. She is the author of Anatomy of Deceit, a primer on the CIA leak investigation, and liveblogged the Scooter Libby trial.
Marcy has a PhD from the University of Michigan, where she researched the “feuilleton,” a short conversational newspaper form that has proven important in times of heightened censorship. Before and after her time in academics, Marcy provided documentation consulting for corporations in the auto, tech, and energy industries. She lives with her spouse in Grand Rapids, MI.
Entries by emptywheel
FISA Debate Liveblog
/120 Comments/in FISA/by emptywheelThree amendments up, no votes today. The first two Feingold amendments prohibit bulk collection and reverse targeting. The third, with Dodd, is immunity.
Feingold on Reverse Targeting
Director of Intelligence has testified that reverse targeting is violation of 4th amendment.
Notes Senator from GA has said reverse targeting is possible.
[Placing declassified documents in record]
This confirms that when FBI has interest in American, up to FBI whether to seek a warrant.
Doesn’t Hillary Have Anything Better to Do?
/42 Comments/in 2008 Presidential Election/by emptywheelIn a matter of 22 hours, Hillary has had two campaign events that are only tangentially about the fact that almost half of all delegates will be awarded today. Yesterday, she once again very generously offered to unilaterally decide to reinterpret our Clusterfuck vote, all in the name of democracy. And today, smack dab in the middle of the biggest election day this side of November 4, Hillary has challenged Obama